Lua

Send Email with a vCard

Demonstrates how to create a simple email, attach a vcard, and send it. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

-- The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
local mailman = chilkat.MailMan.new()

-- Set the SMTP server.
mailman.smtp_host = "smtp.chilkatsoft.com"

-- Set the SMTP login/password (if required)
mailman.smtp_username = "myUsername"
mailman.smtp_password = "myPassword"

-- Create a new email object
local email = chilkat.Email.new()

email.subject = "This is a vcard test"
email.body = "This is a vcard test"
email.from = "Chilkat Admin <admin@chilkatsoft.com>"
local success = email:add_to("Chilkat Support", "support@chilkatsoft.com")
-- To add more recipients, call AddTo, AddCC, or AddBcc once per recipient.

-- A vCard is an email attachment having a Content-Type = "text/x-vcard".
-- Call AddStringAttachment to add a vcard from an in-memory string.
-- The filename should have a ".vcf" file extension.  Chilkat will automatically
-- recognize it and set the content-type to "text/x-vcard";

-- Your application is responsible for providing the vcard formatted string.  For example:
-- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
--
-- begin:vcard
-- fn:Matt Smith
-- n:Smith;Matt
-- org:Chilkat Software, Inc.
-- tel;work:630-784-9670
-- url:http://www.chilkatsoft.com
-- version:2.1
-- end:vcard

local vcard = "begin:vcard ..."
success = email:add_string_attachment("admin.vcf", vcard)
if not success then
    print(email.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Call SendEmail to connect to the SMTP server and send.
-- The connection (i.e. session) to the SMTP server remains
-- open so that subsequent SendEmail calls may use the
-- same connection.
success = mailman:send_email(email)
if not success then
    print(mailman.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Some SMTP servers do not actually send the email until
-- the connection is closed.  In these cases, it is necessary to
-- call CloseSmtpConnection for the mail to be  sent.
-- Most SMTP servers send the email immediately, and it is
-- not required to close the connection.  We'll close it here
-- for the example:
success = mailman:close_smtp_connection()
if not success then
    print("Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.")
end

print("Mail with vCard Sent!")